Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Larry David loves downtown Manhattan.  After marathon filming across Greenwich Village and NoHo a couple weeks ago, Curb Your Enthusiasm will be on the Lower East Side today.  And if those past shoots are any indication, be prepared for tons of Haddad’s trucks and HBO personnel.

That’s right, the infamous Calvin Klein space situated atop Win Restaurant Supplies on East Houston is devoid of any sex.  The new banner features no oiled up models, Eva Mendes, nudity, or orgies.  Just a good old-fashioned QR code.  Quite the departure.

Bar 108 lasted just over a year at the corner of Thompson and West Houston before succumbing back in January.  Four months later, we revealed that there was an ownership transfer onsite, and that a new watering hole would open in its place.  Now the space has officially been reborn as Blue Haven.

Four months ago, the New York Times first brought news that neighborhood favorite Il Laboratorio del Gelato was expanding its empire into 188 Ludlow Street, a high-end rental building also known as The Ludlow.  Since the bombshell dropped, though, the ground level cornershop has remained relatively idle.  There were little, if any, signs that the [...]

Local performer-slash-comedienne Jessica Delfino (and Alex M. Smith) is heading to the Gulf on a dual-pronged mission to both volunteer in oil cleanup, and to capture the BP crisis firsthand for her new documentary.  The feature-length film is called Dirty Rainbow: Crisis in the Gulf, and will focus on “the people of New Orleans and [...]